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Towner State Nursery

878 Nursery Road, Towner, ND 58788-9500

Phone # (701) 537-5636 - Fax # (701) 537-5680

"Trees for Tomorrow"

Please Note! Trees grown at the Towner Nursery are available only to North Dakota Residents. All bare root and container grown species must be ordered in multiples of 50.

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The Towner State Nursery is the only conifer seedling nursery in North Dakota. The North Dakota Forest Service operates the 160-acre facility. It has been operating since 1951, annually producing 1.2 million trees. Trees are produced to meet the needs of North Dakota citizens and are used primarily in shelter belts, living snow fences and other conservation plantings. The nursery grows both bare root and container trees.

Bare root trees are sold with no soil attached to the roots. Bare root stock is packaged to prevent the roots from drying during shipment and storage.

Lifting Colorado from the growing fields.

Greenhouse filled with container grown seedlings.

Container trees are grown in a greenhouse in a mixture of peat and vermiculite. Container trees are extracted from the growing boxes and packaged for shipment. The root ball remains intact during shipment and planting so the tree suffers little planting shock. First year survival and growth is usually better with container trees than bare root stock. Container trees are popular for hand planting.

Seed sources of all tree stock at the Towner Nursery are adapted to climatic conditions in North Dakota. Seed production areas in North Central North Dakota provide much of the seed used at the Towner Nursery. If you have questions about specific seed sources, please contact our office. All of the stock, bare root and container grown, are sold in lots of 50.

	Personnel The Towner Nursery Personnel can be reached at: 878 Nursery Road, Towner, ND 58788-9500 Phone # (701) 537-5636 - Fax # (701) 537-5680 The nursery personnel are listed below with their e-mail address.

	Michael Kangas Towner Nursery and State Forests Team Leader e-mail: Michael.Kangas@ndsu.edu	Roy Laframboise Nursery Manager, e-mail: Roy.Laframboise@ndsu.edu
	Jerome Suchor Assistant Nursery Manager e-mail: Jerome.Suchor@ndsu.edu	Rodney Wahl Assistant Nursery Manager e-mail: Rodney.Wahl@ndsu.edu
	Sue Miller Sales and Office Manager e-mail: Susan.G.Miller@ndsu.edu	Brian Bold Pesticide Technician e-mail: Brian.Bold@ndsu.edu
	Edwin Jacobson Irrigation Technician e-mail: Edwin.Jacobson@ndsu.edu	Pat Kuhn Greenhouse Technician e-mail: Patricia.Kuhn@ndsu.edu

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